Quotes On Villages Of India

#1. There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Gandhiji used to say, 'True democracy is not run by twenty people sitting in Delhi. The power centres now are in capital cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. I would like to distribute these power centres in seven lakh villages of India.

Arvind Kejriwal

#3. If China wants to build a new six-lane expressway, it can bulldoze its way past any number of villages in its path; in India, if you want to widen a two-lane road, you could be tied up in court for a dozen years over compensation entitlements.

Shashi Tharoor

#4. I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village.

Pankaj Mishra

#5. Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. The future of India lies in its villages

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. The soul of India lives in its villages.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. Railway stations can become growth points for the nearby villages.

Narendra Modi

#9. Oblivion was increasingly attractive, since why retain your brain when no amount of thinking could even begin to solve the problem?

Margaret Atwood

#10. Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from ... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.

Seth Godin

#11. Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. I work as if I were going to be the next person to need a respirator. I share in the benefits I bestow on others, and my work has enriched my life.

Forrest Bird

#13. India's soul lived in the villages.

Maloy Krishna Dhar

#14. If you travel by Indian Airlines, you don't have to visit villages in India," the boy said again in disgust. "It still reminds one of the 1940s. Everything is the same, including their mentality.

Jeet Gian

#15. It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#16. The sky was a feather blanket of clouds, save for one blue hole in the fabric. A blue cloud in a white sky.

Marie Rutkoski

#17. I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.

Robert Ben Garant

#18. He said, "You need not go to a place to talk to God. He is here. Everywhere." He raised his hands up to the sky to emphasize his point. "Yes, you're right," she said,

Anne-Rae Vasquez

#19. Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

Narendra Modi

#20. I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

Joseph Haydn

#21. India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. The true India resides in its villages

Charan Singh

#23. What's that sticky stuff called?
Basta: Duct tape.
Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape.

Cornelia Funke

#24. Temptation isn't a sin that you triumph over once, completely and then you're free. Temptation slips into bed with you each night and helps you say your prayers. It wakes you in the morning with a friendly cup of coffee, and knows exactly how you take it.

Karen Marie Moning

#25. Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones.

Pawan Mishra

#26. all looked like those Ravensburger puzzles my brother held so dearly in his room, framed, like trophies of precious time spent pointlessly, hanging from all four of his walls. Thousands

Natali Grayling

#27. The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. When I was young and the empire was beginning to disintegrate, the idea was absolutely unbelievable, particularly to children who'd been taught that the sun never set ... that's what all my books are about, the end of empire.

Jane Gardam

#29. Even after so many decades of Independence there are 18,500 villages in India which do not have electricity. We affirm our commitment to provide electricity to all those villages that do not have electricity.

Narendra Modi

#30. I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

Missy Peregrym

#31. There's only one proper way a song should go, but you've got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise. Sometimes it's lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.

Ben Harper

#32. It is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.

Santha Rama Rau

#33. Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.

Frederick Lenz

#34. Every village should celebrate its birthday & it will end the poison of casteism ... and once casteism ends, see how the strength of villages increase!

Narendra Modi